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branches of at least 2 dim. These are sinuous, as for the lower 
portion flowerless, but higher up, however with interstices, 
covered with o flowers in different directions. These flowers show 
like the normal ones 6 stamens and 3 stigmas. These inflores- 
cences, each of them replacing a flower, may be simple or forked, 
even repeatedly forked, in connection with distinct fasciation. 
The tops of these branches are flowerless but as well articulate. 
By way of exception we found also a branch with at small 
vertical distances 49 flowers with only one o inflorescence next 
to them. Finally we mention a branch with two 9 flowers and 
two decussate long male inflorescences of which one was incom- 
plete. It is only very probable that the latter possessed a 
male nature. 
Dr. Rozpxr, in whose gardens this Palm grows, writes about 
the fasciation of the flowerless tops of the branches: ,as may 
be gathered from our figure (5), it is only (?) the extreme tops 
of somewhat 10 lateral branches which are flattened and dicho- 
polytomic. The whole abnormality has during a period of obser- 
vation of more than two years been noticed only once and 
followed up again by younger inflorescences which were quite 
normal (Cfr. fig. 25a). 
Latania sp. Fig. 26. 
Culta in a private garden at Buitenzorg. 
Legit J. C. van perk Meer Monr, May 1920. 
Fasciation of branch of an inflorescence. 
Mr. Rorpxe writes about this remarkable deviation: 
Putney Anpy gives in Trans. Linn. Soc. Vol. 26, Part 2 (1868) a 
drawing of a fasciated portion of a male inflorescence of Borassus. 
He adds the following remarks: woodcut, fig. 2, represents a 
monstrosity of a male flower on a Palmyra tree. This is very 
peculiar and rare. The specimen from which the drawing 1s 
taken is kept up in a Hindu temple and it was with great 
difficulty I was permitted to take a sketch of it’. On a Latania- 
tree growing in the garden of Mr. Bisa, Buitenzorg, | could 
observe almost the same aberration. This fasciation, represented 
by fig. 26, was just limited to the lowest branch of a of 
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